The Associate Press reports that St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, where 11-year-old Barron Trump is a student, joined over 100 other schools in the D.C/Maryland area in an effort to pressure his father into supporting actual gun control measures.

The NRA has announced that it’s suing its best friend Florida, hours after Florida Governor Rick Scott nominally recognized 17 lives lost by signing an uneven but not-totally-insignificant gun control act. The act includes a handful of gun safety measures, including raising the minimum age for firearm purchases to 21,…

More than three weeks after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed gun reform legislation (SB 7026) that includes $400 million to improve school safety, mental health access, as well as the controversial “school guardians” program. The bill, mixed though it is, includes

In the wake of the Parkland school shooting, Florida Governor Rick Scott is proposing legislative changes in the hopes of preventing another tragedy. The biggest stunner from Scott’s late morning press conference was a controversial plan to raise the minimum age to purchase guns from 18 years old to 21.

Imagine being a teenager—a child, really—and having not only to contend with the fact that 17 of your classmates and teachers were murdered a week ago, the way that student survivors at Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school must, but then also to convince a slew of conspiracy theorists that you’re…

“Prayers and condolences,” and “thoughts and prayers” were offered up almost immediately after news broke that a gunman had opened fire at a Broward County high school on Wednesday. Prayers were offered as the shooting unfolded, even before the gunman was apprehended; before it was confirmed that 17 high schoolers…

Stephen Bittel, the chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, resigned on Friday after six women complained of “creepy” and “demeaning” behavior. The women, Politico reported, “didn’t want to be alone with him due to his body language, suggestive remarks and even the breast-shaped stress squeeze-ball he has been known…

MTV desperately wants to repeat the success of its former beach bros franchise Jersey Shore, a show that changed everyone’s lives and introduced us to cultural acronyms we never knew we needed. So it’s partly our fault that Floribama Shore is happening.

On May 26, 1990, a clown carrying flowers and two balloons showed up on the door step of Marlene Warren’s West Palm Beach home and fatally shot her in the face. It’s taken 27 years, but a suspect in the bizarre case has finally been arrested.

Deaf residents of Manatee County, Florida, got a very different interpretation of an evacuation briefing as Hurricane Irma barreled down on the area, with useful safety information supplanted by...well, not that.

6.3 million Floridians were under mandatory evacuation orders as of this morning in preparation for Hurricane Irma, which Florida governor Rick Scott is calling “a deadly, deadly storm surge.” Irma pummeled the Caribbean late Friday night as a Category 5 storm, claiming the lives of at least 24 people and leaving a…

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On Siesta Key, MTV’s latest attempt at reviving its slice-of-life reality TV heyday, the cast is comprised of adults—new adults, sure, but fresh out of college and recently returned home to Siesta Key, a small barrier island in the Gulf Coast, ready to buckle to the pressure of having the best summer ever. What’s…

In a video that quickly went viral, bodycam footage released this week showed Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala getting pulled over for no apparent reason, catching a police officer’s desperate scramble to justify the stop after learning her identity. Ayala has confirmed the incident and released a statement on how…

Claws is the perfect summer show, establishing itself in three brief episodes as yet another entry in the cultural genre that is “Weird Florida”—somewhere on the same spectrum of Spring Breakers, with a dash of the standard “Florida Man Does Something Bizarre” story that surfaces in the news every now and then. It’s a…

On Wednesday, Florida governor Rick Scott signed into law H.B. 1 —also known as the “Grieving Families Act”—which makes Florida the first state in the nation to offer a type of birth certificate for miscarried fetuses.